7.00pm: Meet & Greet -Europa Hotel

9.30am-10.00am: Registration/Tea/Coffee

10.00am-10.15am: Welcome-Prof. R Kalin

Microbial Ecology and biogeochemistry

10.15am-11.00am: Plenary Lecture-Prof. Joel Gatt

11.00-11.20am: An RNA based stable isotope probing approach to associating microbial diversity with microbial community function. M. Manefield, A. S. Whiteley, N. Ostle, P. Ineson and M. J. Bailey. 2.

11.20-11.40am: A compound-specific stable carbon isotope study of microbial biomarkers in sediments from the Benguela upwelling system. Joanna M. Coleman, Richard D. Pancost and Ioanna Bouloubassi

11.40-12.00pm: Compound Specific Stable Isotope Characterisation Of Volatile Fatty Acids (C2 - C6). Susan Waldron, Tom Preston and Karen Cooper

12.00-12.20pm: The use of stable isotopes to determine methane oxidation rates in a landfill gas plume. G M Williams, R S Ward, and D J Noy

12.20-12.40pm: What do d15N signatures tell us about N biogeochemistry in polluted and pristine forests? P. Boeckx, H. Vervaet, S. Leiva, R. Godoy, C. Oyarzun and O. Van cleemput

12.40pm-1.00pm: Stable isotopes as indicators of biodegradation in contaminated land remediation. R.Kalin, G Boshoff, K McGeough and A Downey

1.00-1.20: SIMSUG Photograph

1.20-2.30pm: Lunch

The atmosphere and gases

2.30-3.l5pm: Plenary lecture: Larry Miller Biogeochemical cycling and stable isotope composition of methyl bromide

3.15-3.35pm: High precision soil and atmospheric trace gas stable isotopic measurements for monitoring sources and fluxes of CO2 Guy Bilodeau, Simon Davis, John Morrison, Stephanie N. Dudd, R. Drimmie, Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Jean-Francois Helie and Louis Varfalvy

3.55-4.15pm: Tea/coffee

Instrument and methodology development

4.15-4.35pm: Compound Specific Isotope Correlation (CSIC): Biogeochemical Fingerprinting of Petroleum Michael. J. Whiticar, Scott A. Harris and Michael D. Kory

4.35-4.55pm: Development of Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography/Combustion/Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Towards Compound Specific Stable Isotope Analyses in Individual Microfauna for Foodweb Studies C.J. Evans, R.P. Evershed, H. Black, N.Ostle and P. Ineson

4.55-5.15pm: Enhancing the Performance of Modern GC/C and GC/TC Systems Andreas W. Hilkert, Dieter Juchelka

6.30pm- Conference Dinner-Europa Hotel

Friday 18 January 2002

9.30-10.00am: Tea/coffee

Instrument/methodology development

10.00-10.20am: Development of a in-situ laser ablation method on soil thin sections to investigate the redistribution of a 13C pulse signal P Bruneau

10.20-10.40am: Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry of Explosives - A new type of evidence. M. Beardah, S. A. Phillips & S. P. Doyle

10.40-11.00am: Modelling the 13C relationship between diet and individual bone collagen-derived amino acids S. Jim, V. Jones, S.H. Ambrose & R.P. Evershed

11.00-11.20am: Stable isotope and fatty acid analyses of bovine animal feeds: A key to BSE? Johannes A.C. Barth , Christine Slater & Tom Preston

11.20-11.50: Tea/coffee

11.50-12.10pm: Collembolan biochemistry and feeding preferences examined by GC-C-IRMS Paul M. Chamberlain, Ian D. Bull, Helaina Black, Philip Ineson, & Richard P. Evershed

12.10-12.50pm: Poster session

12.50-1.00pm: Close

1. Evolution of the ?13C signature related to total C contents and C decomposition rate constants in a soil profile under grassland F. Accoe, P. Boeckx, O. Van Cleemput & G.

2. Stable isotope (13C, 15N and 34S) analysis of the hairs of modern human and their domestic animals Roland Bol and Christian Pflieger

3. Total S and ?34S in grass herbage under different S fertiliser applications L. Brown, R. Bol & C. Kester

4. The use of 15N to trace plant uptake of labelled dairy slurry injected into soil: influence of the new nitrification inhibitor, DMPP David Hatch, David Chadwick, Roland Bol and Rosalind King

5. Gross rates of N cycling processes measured by 15N mean pool dilution D J Hatch and R D Lovell

6. Development of a trace gas isotope capture system in a mobile laboratory for temporal and spatial sampling of field and laboratory experiments Niall McNamara, David Benham, Darren Sleep, Helen Grant and Andrew Stott.

7. The power of dual stable isotope analysis (d13C and d15N) of detritovore soil food webs. O Schmidt

8. Application of 2H in an isotope dilution approach to determine amino acid concentrations in seawater. Sommerville K

9. Gross and net rates of mineralization and microbial activity in permanent pastures following fertilizer applications at different time intervals D.J. Hatch, M. S. Sprosen, S.C. Jarvis and S. F. Ledgard

10. Temporal Variation In The Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopic Signature Of Modern Hair. Susan Waldron

11. Stable isotope effects during the degradation of the fuel additive methyl-tert-butyl-ether. G O'Sullivan, R Kalin, G Boshoff and A Downey

12. The use of carbon stable isotopes and traditional geochemical indicators to evaluate the success of Natural Attenuation and a Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) as remediation options at a trichloroethene (TCE) contaminated site Olivia A. Crowley & Robert M. Kalin

13. The Development and Validation of Isotopic Methods to Determine the Origin of Milk. Hird, S., Brereton, P., Kelly, S., Heaton, K., Chapman, S. and Lofthouse, J.

14. Stable isotope fractionation of halomethanes by strain CC495 methyltransferase. V. Ducrocq, D. Harper and R. Kalin.